American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics,J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was themost famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundlyinvolved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
Author: Kai Bird
Format: Paperback, 736 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 627 g
Published: 2023, Atlantic Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Science, Technology & Medical
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics,J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was themost famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundlyinvolved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.